From: Martijn Tonies Date: June 28 2004 10:39am Subject: Re: triggers or stored procedures List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/168008 Message-Id: <012401c45cfc$1f883270$0a02a8c0@martijn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Carlos, > What is more important? triggers or stored procedures. > > I think that triggers they are a lot more important than stored proc. because stored procs they can be implemented in the front end application. > Then they wouldn't be Stored Procedures anymore would they :-) > In the version 5 should be implemented triggers instead of stored procedures. Both are very much alike - the difference is direct calling compared to triggered calling. Anyway, the language is the same. IMO, they could/should be implemented both in 5.0 With regards, Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL Server. Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com